Sainz Makes it Three-in-Three with Pole at Aragon

Spaniard Carlos Sainz Jr continued his strong start to the 2014 Formula Renault 3.5 Season by claiming his third pole position out of three races at Motorland Aragon. The DAMS driver’s lap of 1:40.418s was enough to see him finish on top, with British rookie Oliver Rowland in second for Fortec Motorsport 0.018s adrift, while the top eighteen drivers were covered by less than a second.

Russian Nikolay Martsenko was third quickest in the sole Comtec Racing entry, ahead of Roberto Merhi in the leading Zeta Corse, while b was an impressive fifth for b. 2013 Eurocup Formula Renault 2.0 champion Pierre Gasly was the leading Arden Motorsport driver in sixth.

Marlon Stockinger was seventh for Lotus, the Phillipines driver qualifying just ahead of International Draco Racing’s Pietro Fantin, while Rowland’s Fortec team-mate Sergey Sirotkin was ninth, ahead of yesterday’s practice pace-setter Will Buller in the second Arden machine.

Race one winner of Monza and joint championship leader Will Stevens struggled and qualified fifteenth, and was outqualified by his Strakka Racing team-mate Matias Laine.

Aragon Race 1 Qualifying Times

POS

DRIVER

NAT

TEAM

TIME

1

Carlos Sainz Jr

ESP

DAMS

1:40.418

2

Oliver Rowland

GBR

Fortec Motorsport

1:40.436

3

Nikolay Martsenko

RUS

Comtec Racing

1:40.474

4

Roberto Merhi

ESP

Zeta Corse

1:40.581

5

Zoel Amberg

SWI

AVF

1:40.611

6

Pierre Gasly

FRA

Arden Motorsport

1:40.624

7

Marlon Stockinger

PHI

Lotus

1:40.692

8

Pietro Fantin

BRZ

International Draco Racing

1:40.702

9

Sergey Sirotkin

RUS

Fortec Motorsport

1:40.709

10

Will Buller

GBR

Arden Motorsport

1:40.741

11

Jazeman Jaafar

MAL

ISR

1:40.823

12

Matias Laine

FIN

Strakka Racing

1:40.894

13

Matthieu Vaxiviere

FRA

Lotus

1:41.193

14

Norman Nato

BRZ

DAMS

1:41.198

15

Will Stevens

GBR

Strakka Racing

1:41.201

16

Meindert van Buuren

NED

Pons Racing

1:41.244

17

Luca Ghiotto

ITA

International Draco Racing

1:41.277

18

Marco Sorensen

DEN

Tech 1 Racing

1:41.344

19

Roman Mavlanov

RUS

Zeta Corse

1:41.648

20

Oliver Webb

GBR

Pons Racing

1:41.649

21

Beitske Visser

NED

AVF

1:42.240

Sainz made it three poles in a row at Aragon (Credit: Florent Gooden/DPPI)

Spaniard Carlos Sainz Jr continued his strong start to the 2014 Formula Renault 3.5 Season by claiming his third pole position out of three races at Motorland Aragon. The DAMS driver’s lap of 1:40.418s was enough to see him finish on top, with British rookie Oliver Rowland in second for Fortec Motorsport 0.018s adrift, while the top eighteen drivers were covered by less than a second.

Russian Nikolay Martsenko was third quickest in the sole Comtec Racing entry, ahead of Roberto Merhi in the leading Zeta Corse, while b was an impressive fifth for b. 2013 Eurocup Formula Renault 2.0 champion Pierre Gasly was the leading Arden Motorsport driver in sixth.

Marlon Stockinger was seventh for Lotus, the Phillipines driver qualifying just ahead of International Draco Racing’s Pietro Fantin, while Rowland’s Fortec team-mate Sergey Sirotkin was ninth, ahead of yesterday’s practice pace-setter Will Buller in the second Arden machine.

Race one winner of Monza and joint championship leader Will Stevens struggled and qualified fifteenth, and was outqualified by his Strakka Racing team-mate Matias Laine.